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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Dabinderjit Singh. Show more
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
Play an Instrument
15 minutes
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Michael explores the surprising benefits of learning to play a musical instrument. It can lower inflammation, lift your mood and strengthen your memory. Show more
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.
Helen Mark is in Cumbria, finding out about historic routes through the fells, once used by postal workers and by coffin bearers. Show more
Farming Today
20/04/24 - New Welsh Rural Affairs Cabinet Secretary, unlawful game licences and dairy pollution
25 minutes
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After farmer protests in Wales, can the new Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs bring peace? Show more
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Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Saturday Live
Nic Hamilton, Josh Elwell and Eliot Gibbins, Victoria McCloud, Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris
1 hour
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Racing driver Nic Hamilton on proving doctors wrong by becoming the first disabled athlete to compete in the British Touring Car Championship. Show more
Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny
Kiell Smith-Bynoe: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
46 minutes
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Ghosts star Kiell Smith-Bynoe loves a pool party, but Shaun doesn't want to take his top off. Perhaps the prospect of seeing a shark in the mall could tempt Shaun to visit. Show more
Hope, optimism and new beginnings: stories of what Johnny Nash's 1972 hit means to people around the world. Show more
Sonia Sodha of The Observer is joined by a range of guests to discuss the latest developments at Westminster. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
The Ayatollah and Israel
28 minutes
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has manged to avoid taking Iran into a full-scale war - but could rising tensions with Israel change that? Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
Money Box
New Fraud Refund Rules and ISA Changes
25 minutes
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We hear about new rules that should ensure victims of fraud are more likely to receive full refunds from banks and other firms, known as Electronic Money Institutions. Show more
Punt and Dennis present the last ever Now Show, joined by Glenn Moore and Harriet Kemsley, with an original song from Jazz Emu. Show more
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Any Questions?
Daisy Cooper MP, Lord Dannatt, Anneliese Dodds MP, Tom Pursglove MP
47 minutes
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James Cook presents political discussion from St George's Guildhall in King's Lynn with Daisy Cooper MP, Lord Dannatt, Anneliese Dodds MP and Tom Pursglove MP. Show more
Call Any Answers? to have your say on the big issues in the news this week.
Alice becomes overwhelmed, and Kirsty finds a willing volunteer. Show more
Two of the greatest Elegies in the English language Milton's Lycidas and Tennyson's In Memoriam adapted by poet Michael Symmons Roberts. Show more
Woman's Hour
Weekend Woman's Hour: Ruth Wilson, Young women and voting, Jing Lusi
56 minutes
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Why are 4.3 million young people not registered to vote? And Professor Nessa Weinstein on the benefits of Solitude. Show more
Full coverage of the day's news.
Sliced Bread Presents
Toast - Mothercare's UK Stores
25 minutes
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Why did Mothercare have to close all of their UK stores? Sean Farrington looks into it with help from expert guests and the entrepreneur, Sam White. Show more
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Six O'Clock News
20/04/2024 UK's climate advisor says Sunak has set Britain back on Net Zero
16 minutes
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The outgoing head of the government's independent watchdog on climate change, Chris Stark, has criticised Rishi Sunak for setting back progress towards net zero targets. Show more
Loose Ends
Tim Peake, Helen Lederer, Phil Manzanera, Jess Fostekew, Michele Stodart and Geejay.
42 minutes
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Tim Peake, Helen Lederer, Phil Manzanera, Jess Fostekew, Michele Stodart and Geejay join Clive Anderson for conversation, music and comedy Show more
As thousands descend on the capital for the London Marathon this Sunday. Stephen Smith takes a jog around the life of parkrun founder, Paul Sinton-Hewitt. Show more
Film director and artist Sam Taylor-Johnson talks to John Wilson about her creative influences. Show more
It’s spring 1970 and Joni is living in a cave. She’s meant to be back home in LA promoting the release of Ladies of the Canyon but instead she’s taken off for Europe. Show more
In 2020, with many workers trapped at home, they turned to one app - Slack - to make their voices heard. And then it all went a little … Lord of The Flies. Show more
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4
Physical checks will soon be carried out on some foods being imported from the EU, but how will it impact the rest of the UK's food supplies? Jaega Wise investigates.
Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio-only world, with Jessica Knappett, Andy Parsons, Ahir Shah and Desiree Burch. Show more
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Percival Everett talks about his new novel, James, a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, told from the point of view of runaway slave Jim. Plus, writing the challenges of motherhood. Show more
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